Table of contents
- List of graphics
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Summary
- Chapters
- 1 Introduction
- Context
- Defining health and welfare
- Scope
- Data quality
- Demographics
- 2 Housing and environmental health infrastructure
- Introduction
- Housing satisfaction
- Household utilities
- Household size
- Environmental heath infrastructure at the community level
- Summary
- 3 Health risk factors
- Introduction
- Breastfeeding
- Nutrition
- Body weight
- Smoking
- Illicit drug use
- Alcohol
- Alcohol-related crime
- Exposure to violence
- Summary
- 4 Smoking
- Why a separate chapter on smoking?
- Smoking prevalence
- Perceptions about smoking
- Health risks of smoking
- Hospitalisation and death from smoking-related causes
- Summary
- 5 Perceptions about health
- Introduction
- Perceived health status
- Health services
- Perceived health problems
- Perceived substance use problems
- Perception of 'safe' alcohol consumption levels
- Perceived social problems and issues
- Attitudes to drug policy initiatives
- Summary
- 6 Access and use of services
- Introduction
- Use of services
- Involvement of Indigenous people in provision of health services
- Distance to health professionals, services and facilities
- Summary
- 7 Mothers and babies
- Perinatal statistics
- Summary
- 8 Ill health
- Introduction
- Hospitalisation
- Injury
- Cancer
- Notifiable communicable diseases
- Dental health
- Mental health
- Summary
- 9 Mortality
- Availability of data
- Important causes of death, 1992-94
- Trends in death rates, 1985-94
- Life expectancy at birth
- Summary
- 10 Welfare
- Child care
- Child abuse and neglect
- Children under care and protection orders and out of home placements
- Adoptions
- Aged care
- Disability
- Housing affordability, adequacy and assistance
- Annual income
- Government payments
- CDEP employment
- Educational attainment and qualifications
- Indigenous community service workers
- Summary
- 11 Health of Torres Strait Islanders
- Introduction
- Self-assessed health status
- Risk factors
- Perceived health problems
- Mortality
- Perinatal mortality
- 12 Recent developments in the collection of Indigenous statistics
- Quality of Indigenous health data
- Identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Population estimates and projections
- Administrative data sources
- Indigenous health information from national surveys
- Future directions in Indigenous health information
- Indigenous welfare information
- Additional information
- Explanatory notes
- Glossary
- References